DETROIT (WJBK) -
Detroit is a godforsaken place. Everyone knows that. Detroit is a mess, no doubt. Here's the thing: some of the factors that put Detroit $18 billion in debt could be factors in your town.
Cities all over the country are struggling to pay for health care and retiree pensions. They're seeing revenues from property taxes and sales taxes drop as they try to pay for expensive projects that were approved before the recession.
Charlie takes a look at what happens when a city doesn't have that proverbial pot to, well, you know.
Vital city services were cut to the bone and people are dying because police, fire and ambulances don't show up when someone calls 911.
That said, Detroit is on the brink of a comeback. Charlie shows us how the Emergency Manager is rubbing pennies together to bring back those city services.

We finally reached end of April month and it has been another busy frustrated month in Iran. More than 45 places in Iran repeatedly has been under protests. Those places from previous months is also under protest, specially workers that haven't been paid for several months.
A worker was digging undergrounds with his digging machine and then he found a body. It was Reza Shah the old king of Iran during Pahlavi dynasty. His grave was 40 years ago demolished when mullah came to power. People outside the digging site demonstrating, old followers still send their blessings to him.
Couple of places in Iran, Sanandaj, Tabriz was flooded and there were no help so far from the regime how to deal these acute scenarios. The Kurdistan province is still on strike for the 3rd week in a row. The situation have not improved at all.
The economical situation in Iran is getting worse for every week. There are many promises from the regime but people cant see those solutions, its all just broken promises.
Thank you for watching!

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The specter of the American government declaring bankruptcy gets trotted out particularly often any time there’s a change in the majority party. Because we’ve been told for decades what a large, scary number America’s National Debt is, the populus fears that the time when it causes another Depression could come at any time. It couldn’t even be said to catch us by surprise, since there were many alarmists that would be able to tell us that they told us so.
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1. Massive Increases in ViolentCrimeSource/Further reading:
http://www.businessinsider.com/what-happens-when-a-nation-goes-bankrupt-2011-9
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/14/business/dealbook/living-wills-of-5-banks-fail-to-pass-muster.html
https://www.thebalance.com/u-s-debt-to-china-how-much-does-it-own-3306355
http://reason.com/archives/2009/05/12/barter-country
http://www.westcoastbk.com/blog/2014/11/should-the-federal-government-sell-assets-to-pay-off-the-national-debt/
http://money.cnn.com/2013/10/02/pf/federal-workers-shutdown/index.html
http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-puerto-rico-bankruptcy-20170503-story.html
https://qz.com/607093/the-world-bank-is-contemplating-bailouts-for-two-of-the-most-corrupt-petro-states-on-the-planet/
https://www.npr.org/2011/10/09/141195893/when-a-country-defaults-who-comes-knocking
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A lot's been said about the black experience after the killing of an unarmed black teen by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri.
There are conflicting accounts about what happened between the cop and the teen. There is no video tape. And we may never know what really happened. But after getting an upprovoked beating with a traffic cone in Ferguson, I wondered what it must be like on the other side of the shield.
Obviously, the police aren't talking in Ferguson. So I rode along with another police department: Detroit. America's Blackest City.

A bombshell new report shows that far right extremists in Portland, Oregon had been having friendly text message conversations with police officers. The texts show that the leaders of the far right groups were working with police officers to prevent the arrests of their members, even if they became physically violent against protestors who showed up at their rallies. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins explains what’s happening.
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One of the weirdest things we have seen develop in the Donald Trump era here in the United States are these little alt right rallies that kind of pop up and no, I'm not talking about the people who line up and go to the Trump speeches. I'm telling you about what happened in Charleston. I'm talking about things that have happened in Portland, things that have happened in cities all over this country where these alt writers gathered together. Maybe they've got Tiki torches. Maybe it's just the proud boys who the hell knows what these morons want to call themselves on any given day, but they like to show up, create chaos, bait people into fighting them and then play the victims like there's somehow oppressed. Well, about a year and a half ago, maybe two years ago, I guess, um, in Portland, this was actually December, 2017 so a year and two months ago, sorry. In Portland, there was one of these little rallies and according to a massive new report by the Willamette Week, they actually uncovered text messages via freedom of Information Act request that showed that leaders in the police force, we're texting with leaders of this alt right group that was going to go stage this rally.
And they were kind of working out a deal to where the members of the alt right group that had outstanding warrants wouldn't be arrested at the rally. The people involved in the text messages were police LieutenantJeff Nia, and he was collaborating with the Patriot prayer leader, Joey Gibson, a council woman. Joanne Hardesty recently brought this up and accounts from meeting talking about this deplorable behavior by the police working with these violent alt righters. Here's one of the text messages. Uh, just uh, oh, okay. Well I got to give a preface here. Uh, you know, Nia told Gibson that he doesn't see a need to arrest his assistant who often brawls with antifa protesters even if he has a warrant, unless of course that assistant where to commit a new crime. So here's the text message, just make sure he doesn't do anything which may draw our attention from this police lieutenant if he still has the warrant in the system.
I don't run you guys, so I don't personally know the officer's could arrest him. I don't see a need to arrest on the warrant unless there is a reason. Um, now correct me if I'm wrong, but couldn't the reason be that he's got a fucking warrant out for his arrest and you see him hanging out? That's how that works. How does this police lieutenant not understand that the reason to arrest somebody is because of a warrant? And this is an assistant who frequently during these, uh, put, what is it a Patriot prayer idiot gathering who routinely tries to fight with protesters, counter protestors. He's got a warrant out. That's your reason to arrest him. But instead, as the paper pointed out, as these text messages prove, these police officers were more interested in helping out the outright, you know, these, these fascists, these racists, these bigots, police officers, at least in this one instance, we're on their side. And even though they knew that they had criminals amongst their ranks, criminals with outstanding warrants, they made an agreement to not arrest them. The only question I have is how many other police departments around the country have made similar agreements? These deals with the devil to not arrest these violent, disgusting, and vile right wing protestors?
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published:17 Feb 2019

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by Charlie LeDuff
DETROIT – The firefighters of this metropolis are are buckling under the workload and it shows.
The Fourth of July weekend was an orgy of flame and mayhem: 140 fires, innumerable medical runs, the obese invalid needing extraction from a stale back bedroom.
Sunrise to sunset to sunrise again, the alarm bells in the firehouses across this city bray like a beaten mule. Always, the goddamned bell.
There is no good sleep in the early morning hours for the men here at Engine 41, located deep in the heart of the city's East Side. The bell won't allow it. They wear the fatigue like a mask of mud.
“When you have poverty, you have fire,” says Firefighter Wes Rawls, 41, a lean, 17-year-veteran as he scans the evening horizon for smoke. “And here, there's a lot of poverty.”
This firehouse – known as “Fort Rohns” – is located in the neighborhood where a mad man or mad men or mad women lost the lightning one recent evening, setting fire to 18 houses. The building across the street from the firehouse is abandoned. The house next door was destroyed by an arsonist as was the one next to that and the one next to that and so on to the expressway a mile up the road.
“People jumping power lines to get electricity. The wiring in the houses is shoddy. They don't have smoke detectors,” Rawls says. “There's that, and then there's the arsonists trying to outdo each other.”
For all the talk about the miracle comeback of downtown Detroit, there is little mentioned about the struggles of the city's neighborhoods where 600,000 people go all but unnoticed. The skeletal city services, the bankruptcy balanced on the backs of the people who serve them: the police and firefighters, many of whom are retiring or relocating to distant cities with higher pay and better benefits and far fewer fires.
Fires are slightly down in Detroit this year, but the workload has increased for the Detroit firefighter thanks to a new directive that requires them to respond to medical emergencies. In total, firefighters have responded to 16,000 emergency calls this year.
That being said, things are slowly, but perceptibly changing for the better, many firefighters say. Response times for medical emergencies and fires are down in Detroit, near the national standard of eight minutes. New bunker gear is on order. Boots no longer have holes and there is plenty of toilet paper and soap in the bathrooms. Older trucks and engines are being repaired when they used to rot in the shop. New rigs have been budgeted. The mayor has promised to hire 90 new men. The commissioner and the union are working together with a sense of common purpose. A deal for a small boost in pay and a pension sweetener is on the table. Arsonists are being arrested, and abandoned houses are being demolished. Money is going into the field instead of contractors' pockets.
“We've got a long way to go, but things are starting to turn around,” Rawls says. “No matter what, no matter how beat down we are, we're still coming. We're coming with everything we've got.”
And with that, the bell goes off and so do the men of Engine 41.

published:08 Jul 2016

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July 18, 2013 - HISTORIC: DETROIT FILES BANKRUPTCY --- The city of Detroit filed the largest municipal bankruptcy case in U.S. history Thursday afternoon, culminating a decades-long slide that transformed the nation's iconic industrial town into a model of urban decline crippled by population loss, a dwindling tax base and financial problems.
The 16-page petition was filed in U.S.Bankruptcy Court in Detroit.
Gov. Rick Snyder's office was making plans this afternoon to hold a Friday morning news conference at the Maccabees Building, 5057 Woodward in Midtown, according to a source. It's the same location where the governor declared a financial emergency for Detroit on March 1.
Under state law, Snyder is required to approve a Chapter 9 filing. As of Wednesday, Snyder said he had not received any such request from Detroit Emergency ManagerKevyn Orr. Sources close to the governor said the situation is fluid, adding that Snyder intends to study Orr's recommendations and related documents "for a couple of days" before making his decision.
The bankruptcy filing comes as an Ingham County judge is preparing Monday to hear arguments from retirees seeking to stop the bankruptcy filing, which produced an automatic stay of all pending litigation and capped a month of intense talks between Orr's team and creditors, which largely have failed to restructure as much as $20 billion in debt and long-term liabilities.
News of an imminent filing prompted lawyers for the city's pension funds to request an emergency hearing this afternoon in Ingham County Circuit Court to block a bankruptcy authorization.
Orr's spokesman, Bill Nowling, could not be reached for comment. And state officials contacted by The News on Thursday declined to discuss the matter.
The Chapter 9 filing could take years, experts say, despite hopes by the governor and Orr that the case can be wrapped up in a year. A bankruptcy judge could trump the state constitution by slashing retiree pensions, ripping up contracts and paying creditors roughly a dime on the dollar for unsecured claims worth $11.45 billion.
During a month of negotiations, Orr has reached a settlement with only two creditors: Bank of America Corp. and UBS AG. They have agreed to accept 75 cents on the dollar for approximately $340 million in swaps liabilities, according to a source familiar with the deal.
The bankruptcy plan was expected to closely follow Orr's restructuring proposal that was unveiled to creditors on June 14 — a proposal that drew criticism from some creditors who said the cuts were too deep and did not include the sale of city assets, including Belle Isle and a Detroit Institute of Arts collection worth billions. He proposed paying most of the money owed to secured creditors while pension funds, unions and unsecured bondholders would receive, in some cases, 10 cents on the dollar.
The filing is expected to trigger a costly, long and precedent-setting battle by creditors and Detroit's bankruptcy case could become a template for the treatment of pensions in the largely uncharted world of municipal bankruptcies.
Unsecured creditors could take the biggest hit in bankruptcy court. Orr wants them to share a $2 billion payout on approximately $11.5 billion worth of debt, which includes an estimated $9.2 billion in health and pension benefits and $530 million in general-obligation bonds.
Instead of paying creditors in full, Orr would use $1.25 billion over the next decade to buy police cars and fire trucks, replace broken street lights, tear down burned-out homes, fight blight and improve city services.

Police

A police force is a constituted body of persons empowered by the state to enforce the law, protect property, and limit civil disorder. Their powers include the legitimized use of force. The term is most commonly associated with police services of a sovereign state that are authorized to exercise the police power of that state within a defined legal or territorial area of responsibility. Police forces are often defined as being separate from military or other organizations involved in the defense of the state against foreign aggressors; however, gendarmerie are military units charged with civil policing.

Law enforcement, however, constitutes only part of policing activity. Policing has included an array of activities in different situations, but the predominant ones are concerned with the preservation of order. In some societies, in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, these developed within the context of maintaining the class system and the protection of private property. Many police forces suffer from police corruption to a greater or lesser degree. The police force is usually a public sector service, meaning they are paid through taxes.

References

The Police

The Police were an English rock band formed in London in 1977. For the majority of their history, the band consisted of Sting (lead singer, bassist and principal songwriter), Andy Summers (guitarist) and Stewart Copeland (drummer). The Police became globally popular in the late 1970s and are generally regarded as one of the first new wave groups to achieve mainstream success, playing a style of rock that was influenced by punk, reggae, and jazz. They are also considered one of the leaders of the Second British Invasion of the U.S. They disbanded in 1986, but reunited in early 2007 for a one-off world tour that ended in August 2008.

Their 1978 debut album, Outlandos d'Amour, reached No. 6 in the UK, and their second album Reggatta de Blanc became the first of five consecutive UK No. 1 albums.Synchronicity from 1983 was No. 1 in both the UK and U.S., selling over 8million copies in the U.S. alone. The Police have sold over 75 million records, making them one of the world's best-selling artists of all time. They were the world's highest-earning musicians in 2008, thanks to their reunion tour.

The highly anticipated mixtape caused the mixtape site DatPiff to crash upon the mixtapes eventual release. Detroit was viewed 1.5 million times on the day of release and was downloaded close to 700,000 - with 500,000 downloads within three hours. It has been downloaded over a million times.

Background

Sean first announced the mixtape on August 20, 2012 via Twitter and a YouTube video titled "Big Sean Mixtape Announcement 1972". Big Sean released three song previews in the shape of short music videos as promotion before the mixtape release; "How It Feel" on August 21, "24 Karats of Gold" on August 28 and "RWT" on September 4. Sean paid for the expenses of the videos himself. The title of the mixtape pays homage to Sean's hometown of Detroit.

Détroit

Détroit is a French musical duo formed in 2012 by French rock musician Bertrand Cantat and French bass player Pascal Humbert. Both were part of the rock formation Passion Fodder from 1985 to 1991 before they split up and Cantat moved on to establish his own famous band Noir Désir, whereas Humbert went on to join the American band 16 Horsepower, and later to Lilium and Wovenhand, amongst others.

The duo Détroit released their greatly expected debut album Horizons on 18 November 2013. It was recorded in Vega Studios and produced by Pascal Humbert and Bruno Green. The debut release from the album is "Droit dans le soleil" that appeared in the SNEP Top 10 in its first week of release. It has also charted in Belgium's French records market and in Switzerland.

The formation of the duo follows the announcement of Cantat's band Noir Désir in 2010. The two collaborated in 2011 in the album Chœurs with musicians Bernard Falaise and Alexander MacSween. The music was composed for Wajdi Mouawad's production of a trilogy from Sophocles titled Le Cycle des Femmes: Trois histoires de Sophocle or just Des Femmes.

Detroit 1-8-7

Detroit 1-8-7 was an American police procedural drama series about the Detroit Police Department's leading homicide unit, created by Jason Richman for ABC. It featured an ensemble cast of actors including Michael Imperioli and James McDaniel. The series originally ran on ABC from September 21, 2010 to March 20, 2011. It was filmed on location in Detroit, except for the pilot, which was filmed in Atlanta.

The show's executive producer, David Zabel stated, "This is a crime show but we will explore various nooks and crannies in the communities and within that context there's a lot of opportunity to see what's positive in the city and see what's heroic about the people fighting for what’s best for the city of Detroit."

On May 13, 2011, Detroit 1-8-7 was canceled by ABC. With the cancellation, series creator Jason Richman has said he is pursuing options for the series to continue on cable television, also stating that chances for the move are "slim".

Detroit Police Department

The Detroit Police Department (DPD), established in 1865, is responsible for the city of Detroit, Michigan.

History

As of 2014, the department is composed of twelve precincts. In 1921, the Detroit Police Department became the first police department in the country to utilize radio dispatch in their cars. A historical marker at Belle Isle Park describes the new advancement in technology.

Prior to 1973 female officers were not allowed to work for DPD in the same capacity as men. However, DPD had previously established the Women's Division, launched in 1920, which worked on cases of "child abuse, sexual assaults, juvenile delinquency, and checking establishments for illegal minors."

Fallen officers

The Detroit Police Department has lost eight officers between the years 2000 and 2011. During the 1970s, the department lost 26 officers in a span of ten years. Since 1878, The Detroit Police Department has lost 225 officers in the line of duty. The leading cause of death in the line of duty is gunfire, with a total of 149 officers slain.

LeDuff: Detroit's bankruptcy is helping police do their jobs

DETROIT (WJBK) -
Detroit is a godforsaken place. Everyone knows that. Detroit is a mess, no doubt. Here's the thing: some of the factors that put Detroit $18 billion in debt could be factors in your town.
Cities all over the country are struggling to pay for health care and retiree pensions. They're seeing revenues from property taxes and sales taxes drop as they try to pay for expensive projects that were approved before the recession.
Charlie takes a look at what happens when a city doesn't have that proverbial pot to, well, you know.
Vital city services were cut to the bone and people are dying because police, fire and ambulances don't show up when someone calls 911.
That said, Detroit is on the brink of a comeback. Charlie shows us how the Emergency Manager is rubbing pennies together to bring back those city services.

We finally reached end of April month and it has been another busy frustrated month in Iran. More than 45 places in Iran repeatedly has been under protests. Those places from previous months is also under protest, specially workers that haven't been paid for several months.
A worker was digging undergrounds with his digging machine and then he found a body. It was Reza Shah the old king of Iran during Pahlavi dynasty. His grave was 40 years ago demolished when mullah came to power. People outside the digging site demonstrating, old followers still send their blessings to him.
Couple of places in Iran, Sanandaj, Tabriz was flooded and there were no help so far from the regime how to deal these acute scenarios. The Kurdistan province is still on strike for the 3rd week in a row. The situation have not improved at all.
The economical situation in Iran is getting worse for every week. There are many promises from the regime but people cant see those solutions, its all just broken promises.
Thank you for watching!

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Clashes with police after Iranian financial institution bankruptcy

Clashes with police after Iranian financial institution bankruptcy

Clashes with police after Iranian financial institution bankruptcy

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10 Things That Would Happen if the United States Went Bankrupt

The specter of the American government declaring bankruptcy gets trotted out particularly often any time there’s a change in the majority party. Because we’ve been told for decades what a large, scary number America’s National Debt is, the populus fears that the time when it causes another Depression could come at any time. It couldn’t even be said to catch us by surprise, since there were many alarmists that would be able to tell us that they told us so.
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9. Banks Will Empty Out
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5. Many Will Be Driven from Their Homes
4. Bond Lawsuits
3. Demanding Money from the World Bank
2. Get Away With Not Paying All Debts
1. Massive Increases in ViolentCrimeSource/Further reading:
http://www.businessinsider.com/what-happens-when-a-nation-goes-bankrupt-2011-9
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/14/business/dealbook/living-wills-of-5-banks-fail-to-pass-muster.html
https://www.thebalance.com/u-s-debt-to-china-how-much-does-it-own-3306355
http://reason.com/archives/2009/05/12/barter-country
http://www.westcoastbk.com/blog/2014/11/should-the-federal-government-sell-assets-to-pay-off-the-national-debt/
http://money.cnn.com/2013/10/02/pf/federal-workers-shutdown/index.html
http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-puerto-rico-bankruptcy-20170503-story.html
https://qz.com/607093/the-world-bank-is-contemplating-bailouts-for-two-of-the-most-corrupt-petro-states-on-the-planet/
https://www.npr.org/2011/10/09/141195893/when-a-country-defaults-who-comes-knocking
https://www.ft.com/content/897ad5da-76a0-11e7-90c0-90a9d1bc9691
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:20090113_bankruptcy-01.jpg
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oUc6WpOAwto/TMHob5UFV5I/AAAAAAAAboM/E5k9ynl9F14/s1600/usbankruptcy.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Buenos_Aires_-_Manifestaci%C3%B3n_contra_el_Corralito_-_20020206-17.JPG
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:American_union_bank.gif
https://www.flickr.com/photos/colalife/16771446857
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41V9oSHvV1L._SX332_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahBayUkM8vI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rzNj5-RkMo
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Detroit Police: Post Ferguson

Detroit Police: Post Ferguson

Detroit Police: Post Ferguson

A lot's been said about the black experience after the killing of an unarmed black teen by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri.
There are conflicting accounts about what happened between the cop and the teen. There is no video tape. And we may never know what really happened. But after getting an upprovoked beating with a traffic cone in Ferguson, I wondered what it must be like on the other side of the shield.
Obviously, the police aren't talking in Ferguson. So I rode along with another police department: Detroit. America's Blackest City.

Police Officers Are Working With Far Right Extremists, Text Messages Show

Police Officers Are Working With Far Right Extremists, Text Messages Show

Police Officers Are Working With Far Right Extremists, Text Messages Show

A bombshell new report shows that far right extremists in Portland, Oregon had been having friendly text message conversations with police officers. The texts show that the leaders of the far right groups were working with police officers to prevent the arrests of their members, even if they became physically violent against protestors who showed up at their rallies. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins explains what’s happening.
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One of the weirdest things we have seen develop in the Donald Trump era here in the United States are these little alt right rallies that kind of pop up and no, I'm not talking about the people who line up and go to the Trump speeches. I'm telling you about what happened in Charleston. I'm talking about things that have happened in Portland, things that have happened in cities all over this country where these alt writers gathered together. Maybe they've got Tiki torches. Maybe it's just the proud boys who the hell knows what these morons want to call themselves on any given day, but they like to show up, create chaos, bait people into fighting them and then play the victims like there's somehow oppressed. Well, about a year and a half ago, maybe two years ago, I guess, um, in Portland, this was actually December, 2017 so a year and two months ago, sorry. In Portland, there was one of these little rallies and according to a massive new report by the Willamette Week, they actually uncovered text messages via freedom of Information Act request that showed that leaders in the police force, we're texting with leaders of this alt right group that was going to go stage this rally.
And they were kind of working out a deal to where the members of the alt right group that had outstanding warrants wouldn't be arrested at the rally. The people involved in the text messages were police LieutenantJeff Nia, and he was collaborating with the Patriot prayer leader, Joey Gibson, a council woman. Joanne Hardesty recently brought this up and accounts from meeting talking about this deplorable behavior by the police working with these violent alt righters. Here's one of the text messages. Uh, just uh, oh, okay. Well I got to give a preface here. Uh, you know, Nia told Gibson that he doesn't see a need to arrest his assistant who often brawls with antifa protesters even if he has a warrant, unless of course that assistant where to commit a new crime. So here's the text message, just make sure he doesn't do anything which may draw our attention from this police lieutenant if he still has the warrant in the system.
I don't run you guys, so I don't personally know the officer's could arrest him. I don't see a need to arrest on the warrant unless there is a reason. Um, now correct me if I'm wrong, but couldn't the reason be that he's got a fucking warrant out for his arrest and you see him hanging out? That's how that works. How does this police lieutenant not understand that the reason to arrest somebody is because of a warrant? And this is an assistant who frequently during these, uh, put, what is it a Patriot prayer idiot gathering who routinely tries to fight with protesters, counter protestors. He's got a warrant out. That's your reason to arrest him. But instead, as the paper pointed out, as these text messages prove, these police officers were more interested in helping out the outright, you know, these, these fascists, these racists, these bigots, police officers, at least in this one instance, we're on their side. And even though they knew that they had criminals amongst their ranks, criminals with outstanding warrants, they made an agreement to not arrest them. The only question I have is how many other police departments around the country have made similar agreements? These deals with the devil to not arrest these violent, disgusting, and vile right wing protestors?
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Detroit Post-Bankruptcy The Men of Engine 41

Detroit Post-Bankruptcy The Men of Engine 41

Detroit Post-Bankruptcy The Men of Engine 41

by Charlie LeDuff
DETROIT – The firefighters of this metropolis are are buckling under the workload and it shows.
The Fourth of July weekend was an orgy of flame and mayhem: 140 fires, innumerable medical runs, the obese invalid needing extraction from a stale back bedroom.
Sunrise to sunset to sunrise again, the alarm bells in the firehouses across this city bray like a beaten mule. Always, the goddamned bell.
There is no good sleep in the early morning hours for the men here at Engine 41, located deep in the heart of the city's East Side. The bell won't allow it. They wear the fatigue like a mask of mud.
“When you have poverty, you have fire,” says Firefighter Wes Rawls, 41, a lean, 17-year-veteran as he scans the evening horizon for smoke. “And here, there's a lot of poverty.”
This firehouse – known as “Fort Rohns” – is located in the neighborhood where a mad man or mad men or mad women lost the lightning one recent evening, setting fire to 18 houses. The building across the street from the firehouse is abandoned. The house next door was destroyed by an arsonist as was the one next to that and the one next to that and so on to the expressway a mile up the road.
“People jumping power lines to get electricity. The wiring in the houses is shoddy. They don't have smoke detectors,” Rawls says. “There's that, and then there's the arsonists trying to outdo each other.”
For all the talk about the miracle comeback of downtown Detroit, there is little mentioned about the struggles of the city's neighborhoods where 600,000 people go all but unnoticed. The skeletal city services, the bankruptcy balanced on the backs of the people who serve them: the police and firefighters, many of whom are retiring or relocating to distant cities with higher pay and better benefits and far fewer fires.
Fires are slightly down in Detroit this year, but the workload has increased for the Detroit firefighter thanks to a new directive that requires them to respond to medical emergencies. In total, firefighters have responded to 16,000 emergency calls this year.
That being said, things are slowly, but perceptibly changing for the better, many firefighters say. Response times for medical emergencies and fires are down in Detroit, near the national standard of eight minutes. New bunker gear is on order. Boots no longer have holes and there is plenty of toilet paper and soap in the bathrooms. Older trucks and engines are being repaired when they used to rot in the shop. New rigs have been budgeted. The mayor has promised to hire 90 new men. The commissioner and the union are working together with a sense of common purpose. A deal for a small boost in pay and a pension sweetener is on the table. Arsonists are being arrested, and abandoned houses are being demolished. Money is going into the field instead of contractors' pockets.
“We've got a long way to go, but things are starting to turn around,” Rawls says. “No matter what, no matter how beat down we are, we're still coming. We're coming with everything we've got.”
And with that, the bell goes off and so do the men of Engine 41.

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Breaking: Detroit Becomes Largest U.S. City To File For Bankruptcy

Breaking: Detroit Becomes Largest U.S. City To File For Bankruptcy

Breaking: Detroit Becomes Largest U.S. City To File For Bankruptcy

July 18, 2013 - HISTORIC: DETROIT FILES BANKRUPTCY --- The city of Detroit filed the largest municipal bankruptcy case in U.S. history Thursday afternoon, culminating a decades-long slide that transformed the nation's iconic industrial town into a model of urban decline crippled by population loss, a dwindling tax base and financial problems.
The 16-page petition was filed in U.S.Bankruptcy Court in Detroit.
Gov. Rick Snyder's office was making plans this afternoon to hold a Friday morning news conference at the Maccabees Building, 5057 Woodward in Midtown, according to a source. It's the same location where the governor declared a financial emergency for Detroit on March 1.
Under state law, Snyder is required to approve a Chapter 9 filing. As of Wednesday, Snyder said he had not received any such request from Detroit Emergency ManagerKevyn Orr. Sources close to the governor said the situation is fluid, adding that Snyder intends to study Orr's recommendations and related documents "for a couple of days" before making his decision.
The bankruptcy filing comes as an Ingham County judge is preparing Monday to hear arguments from retirees seeking to stop the bankruptcy filing, which produced an automatic stay of all pending litigation and capped a month of intense talks between Orr's team and creditors, which largely have failed to restructure as much as $20 billion in debt and long-term liabilities.
News of an imminent filing prompted lawyers for the city's pension funds to request an emergency hearing this afternoon in Ingham County Circuit Court to block a bankruptcy authorization.
Orr's spokesman, Bill Nowling, could not be reached for comment. And state officials contacted by The News on Thursday declined to discuss the matter.
The Chapter 9 filing could take years, experts say, despite hopes by the governor and Orr that the case can be wrapped up in a year. A bankruptcy judge could trump the state constitution by slashing retiree pensions, ripping up contracts and paying creditors roughly a dime on the dollar for unsecured claims worth $11.45 billion.
During a month of negotiations, Orr has reached a settlement with only two creditors: Bank of America Corp. and UBS AG. They have agreed to accept 75 cents on the dollar for approximately $340 million in swaps liabilities, according to a source familiar with the deal.
The bankruptcy plan was expected to closely follow Orr's restructuring proposal that was unveiled to creditors on June 14 — a proposal that drew criticism from some creditors who said the cuts were too deep and did not include the sale of city assets, including Belle Isle and a Detroit Institute of Arts collection worth billions. He proposed paying most of the money owed to secured creditors while pension funds, unions and unsecured bondholders would receive, in some cases, 10 cents on the dollar.
The filing is expected to trigger a costly, long and precedent-setting battle by creditors and Detroit's bankruptcy case could become a template for the treatment of pensions in the largely uncharted world of municipal bankruptcies.
Unsecured creditors could take the biggest hit in bankruptcy court. Orr wants them to share a $2 billion payout on approximately $11.5 billion worth of debt, which includes an estimated $9.2 billion in health and pension benefits and $530 million in general-obligation bonds.
Instead of paying creditors in full, Orr would use $1.25 billion over the next decade to buy police cars and fire trucks, replace broken street lights, tear down burned-out homes, fight blight and improve city services.

LeDuff: Detroit's bankruptcy is helping police do their jobs

DETROIT (WJBK) -
Detroit is a godforsaken place. Everyone knows that. Detroit is a mess, no doubt. Here's the thing: some of the factors that put Detroit $18 billion in debt could be factors in your town.
Cities all over the country are struggling to pay for health care and retiree pensions. They're seeing revenues from property taxes and sales taxes drop as they try to pay for expensive projects that were approved before the recession.
Charlie takes a look at what happens when a city doesn't have that proverbial pot to, well, you know.
Vital city services were cut to the bone and people are dying because police, fire and ambulances don't show up when someone calls 911.
That said, Detroit is on the brink of a comeback. Charlie shows us how the Emergency Manager is rubbing pennies ...

published: 26 Jun 2014

Detroit Police Chief James Craig discusses bankruptcy filing

We finally reached end of April month and it has been another busy frustrated month in Iran. More than 45 places in Iran repeatedly has been under protests. Those places from previous months is also under protest, specially workers that haven't been paid for several months.
A worker was digging undergrounds with his digging machine and then he found a body. It was Reza Shah the old king of Iran during Pahlavi dynasty. His grave was 40 years ago demolished when mullah came to power. People outside the digging site demonstrating, old followers still send their blessings to him.
Couple of places in Iran, Sanandaj, Tabriz was flooded and there were no help so far from the regime how to deal these acute scenarios. The Kurdistan province is still on strike for the 3rd week in a row. The sit...

published: 07 May 2018

Clashes with police after Iranian financial institution bankruptcy

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10 Things That Would Happen if the United States Went Bankrupt

The specter of the American government declaring bankruptcy gets trotted out particularly often any time there’s a change in the majority party. Because we’ve been told for decades what a large, scary number America’s National Debt is, the populus fears that the time when it causes another Depression could come at any time. It couldn’t even be said to catch us by surprise, since there were many alarmists that would be able to tell us that they told us so.
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Detroit Police: Post Ferguson

A lot's been said about the black experience after the killing of an unarmed black teen by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri.
There are conflicting accounts about what happened between the cop and the teen. There is no video tape. And we may never know what really happened. But after getting an upprovoked beating with a traffic cone in Ferguson, I wondered what it must be like on the other side of the shield.
Obviously, the police aren't talking in Ferguson. So I rode along with another police department: Detroit. America's Blackest City.

Police Officers Are Working With Far Right Extremists, Text Messages Show

A bombshell new report shows that far right extremists in Portland, Oregon had been having friendly text message conversations with police officers. The texts show that the leaders of the far right groups were working with police officers to prevent the arrests of their members, even if they became physically violent against protestors who showed up at their rallies. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins explains what’s happening.
Link – https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/oregon-official-texts-show-collusion-between-police-far-right-extremists-n971926
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Detroit Post-Bankruptcy The Men of Engine 41

by Charlie LeDuff
DETROIT – The firefighters of this metropolis are are buckling under the workload and it shows.
The Fourth of July weekend was an orgy of flame and mayhem: 140 fires, innumerable medical runs, the obese invalid needing extraction from a stale back bedroom.
Sunrise to sunset to sunrise again, the alarm bells in the firehouses across this city bray like a beaten mule. Always, the goddamned bell.
There is no good sleep in the early morning hours for the men here at Engine 41, located deep in the heart of the city's East Side. The bell won't allow it. They wear the fatigue like a mask of mud.
“When you have poverty, you have fire,” says Firefighter Wes Rawls, 41, a lean, 17-year-veteran as he scans the evening horizon for smoke. “And here, there's a lot of poverty.”
This fire...

published: 08 Jul 2016

Breaking: Detroit Becomes Largest U.S. City To File For Bankruptcy

July 18, 2013 - HISTORIC: DETROIT FILES BANKRUPTCY --- The city of Detroit filed the largest municipal bankruptcy case in U.S. history Thursday afternoon, culminating a decades-long slide that transformed the nation's iconic industrial town into a model of urban decline crippled by population loss, a dwindling tax base and financial problems.
The 16-page petition was filed in U.S.Bankruptcy Court in Detroit.
Gov. Rick Snyder's office was making plans this afternoon to hold a Friday morning news conference at the Maccabees Building, 5057 Woodward in Midtown, according to a source. It's the same location where the governor declared a financial emergency for Detroit on March 1.
Under state law, Snyder is required to approve a Chapter 9 filing. As of Wednesday, Snyder said he had not recei...

LeDuff: Detroit's bankruptcy is helping police do their jobs

DETROIT (WJBK) -
Detroit is a godforsaken place. Everyone knows that. Detroit is a mess, no doubt. Here's the thing: some of the factors that put Detroit $18...

DETROIT (WJBK) -
Detroit is a godforsaken place. Everyone knows that. Detroit is a mess, no doubt. Here's the thing: some of the factors that put Detroit $18 billion in debt could be factors in your town.
Cities all over the country are struggling to pay for health care and retiree pensions. They're seeing revenues from property taxes and sales taxes drop as they try to pay for expensive projects that were approved before the recession.
Charlie takes a look at what happens when a city doesn't have that proverbial pot to, well, you know.
Vital city services were cut to the bone and people are dying because police, fire and ambulances don't show up when someone calls 911.
That said, Detroit is on the brink of a comeback. Charlie shows us how the Emergency Manager is rubbing pennies together to bring back those city services.

DETROIT (WJBK) -
Detroit is a godforsaken place. Everyone knows that. Detroit is a mess, no doubt. Here's the thing: some of the factors that put Detroit $18 billion in debt could be factors in your town.
Cities all over the country are struggling to pay for health care and retiree pensions. They're seeing revenues from property taxes and sales taxes drop as they try to pay for expensive projects that were approved before the recession.
Charlie takes a look at what happens when a city doesn't have that proverbial pot to, well, you know.
Vital city services were cut to the bone and people are dying because police, fire and ambulances don't show up when someone calls 911.
That said, Detroit is on the brink of a comeback. Charlie shows us how the Emergency Manager is rubbing pennies together to bring back those city services.

We finally reached end of April month and it has been another busy frustrated month in Iran. More than 45 places in Iran repeatedly has been under protests. Tho...

We finally reached end of April month and it has been another busy frustrated month in Iran. More than 45 places in Iran repeatedly has been under protests. Those places from previous months is also under protest, specially workers that haven't been paid for several months.
A worker was digging undergrounds with his digging machine and then he found a body. It was Reza Shah the old king of Iran during Pahlavi dynasty. His grave was 40 years ago demolished when mullah came to power. People outside the digging site demonstrating, old followers still send their blessings to him.
Couple of places in Iran, Sanandaj, Tabriz was flooded and there were no help so far from the regime how to deal these acute scenarios. The Kurdistan province is still on strike for the 3rd week in a row. The situation have not improved at all.
The economical situation in Iran is getting worse for every week. There are many promises from the regime but people cant see those solutions, its all just broken promises.
Thank you for watching!

We finally reached end of April month and it has been another busy frustrated month in Iran. More than 45 places in Iran repeatedly has been under protests. Those places from previous months is also under protest, specially workers that haven't been paid for several months.
A worker was digging undergrounds with his digging machine and then he found a body. It was Reza Shah the old king of Iran during Pahlavi dynasty. His grave was 40 years ago demolished when mullah came to power. People outside the digging site demonstrating, old followers still send their blessings to him.
Couple of places in Iran, Sanandaj, Tabriz was flooded and there were no help so far from the regime how to deal these acute scenarios. The Kurdistan province is still on strike for the 3rd week in a row. The situation have not improved at all.
The economical situation in Iran is getting worse for every week. There are many promises from the regime but people cant see those solutions, its all just broken promises.
Thank you for watching!

Clashes with police after Iranian financial institution bankruptcy

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10 Things That Would Happen if the United States Went Bankrupt

The specter of the American government declaring bankruptcy gets trotted out particularly often any time there’s a change in the majority party. Because we’ve b...

The specter of the American government declaring bankruptcy gets trotted out particularly often any time there’s a change in the majority party. Because we’ve been told for decades what a large, scary number America’s National Debt is, the populus fears that the time when it causes another Depression could come at any time. It couldn’t even be said to catch us by surprise, since there were many alarmists that would be able to tell us that they told us so.
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3. Demanding Money from the World Bank
2. Get Away With Not Paying All Debts
1. Massive Increases in ViolentCrimeSource/Further reading:
http://www.businessinsider.com/what-happens-when-a-nation-goes-bankrupt-2011-9
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/14/business/dealbook/living-wills-of-5-banks-fail-to-pass-muster.html
https://www.thebalance.com/u-s-debt-to-china-how-much-does-it-own-3306355
http://reason.com/archives/2009/05/12/barter-country
http://www.westcoastbk.com/blog/2014/11/should-the-federal-government-sell-assets-to-pay-off-the-national-debt/
http://money.cnn.com/2013/10/02/pf/federal-workers-shutdown/index.html
http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-puerto-rico-bankruptcy-20170503-story.html
https://qz.com/607093/the-world-bank-is-contemplating-bailouts-for-two-of-the-most-corrupt-petro-states-on-the-planet/
https://www.npr.org/2011/10/09/141195893/when-a-country-defaults-who-comes-knocking
https://www.ft.com/content/897ad5da-76a0-11e7-90c0-90a9d1bc9691
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:20090113_bankruptcy-01.jpg
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oUc6WpOAwto/TMHob5UFV5I/AAAAAAAAboM/E5k9ynl9F14/s1600/usbankruptcy.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Buenos_Aires_-_Manifestaci%C3%B3n_contra_el_Corralito_-_20020206-17.JPG
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The specter of the American government declaring bankruptcy gets trotted out particularly often any time there’s a change in the majority party. Because we’ve been told for decades what a large, scary number America’s National Debt is, the populus fears that the time when it causes another Depression could come at any time. It couldn’t even be said to catch us by surprise, since there were many alarmists that would be able to tell us that they told us so.
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What Would Happen if CALIFORNIA SECEDED from the Union (America)?
https://youtu.be/qfGtMGoEwaw?list=PLQ4d2-ByGhnL72IcdJzPXC7DNyxk9KA6K
Text version: http://www.toptenz.net/10-things-happen-united-states-went-bankrupt.php
Coming up:
10. Massive Shortages Across the Board
9. Banks Will Empty Out
8. ChineseCurrency Will Collapse Too
7. Barter Economies Will Be Ready
6. Selling OffPublic Property
5. Many Will Be Driven from Their Homes
4. Bond Lawsuits
3. Demanding Money from the World Bank
2. Get Away With Not Paying All Debts
1. Massive Increases in ViolentCrimeSource/Further reading:
http://www.businessinsider.com/what-happens-when-a-nation-goes-bankrupt-2011-9
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/14/business/dealbook/living-wills-of-5-banks-fail-to-pass-muster.html
https://www.thebalance.com/u-s-debt-to-china-how-much-does-it-own-3306355
http://reason.com/archives/2009/05/12/barter-country
http://www.westcoastbk.com/blog/2014/11/should-the-federal-government-sell-assets-to-pay-off-the-national-debt/
http://money.cnn.com/2013/10/02/pf/federal-workers-shutdown/index.html
http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-puerto-rico-bankruptcy-20170503-story.html
https://qz.com/607093/the-world-bank-is-contemplating-bailouts-for-two-of-the-most-corrupt-petro-states-on-the-planet/
https://www.npr.org/2011/10/09/141195893/when-a-country-defaults-who-comes-knocking
https://www.ft.com/content/897ad5da-76a0-11e7-90c0-90a9d1bc9691
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:20090113_bankruptcy-01.jpg
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_oUc6WpOAwto/TMHob5UFV5I/AAAAAAAAboM/E5k9ynl9F14/s1600/usbankruptcy.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Buenos_Aires_-_Manifestaci%C3%B3n_contra_el_Corralito_-_20020206-17.JPG
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:American_union_bank.gif
https://www.flickr.com/photos/colalife/16771446857
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41V9oSHvV1L._SX332_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahBayUkM8vI
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Detroit Police: Post Ferguson

A lot's been said about the black experience after the killing of an unarmed black teen by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri.
There are conflicting ...

A lot's been said about the black experience after the killing of an unarmed black teen by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri.
There are conflicting accounts about what happened between the cop and the teen. There is no video tape. And we may never know what really happened. But after getting an upprovoked beating with a traffic cone in Ferguson, I wondered what it must be like on the other side of the shield.
Obviously, the police aren't talking in Ferguson. So I rode along with another police department: Detroit. America's Blackest City.

A lot's been said about the black experience after the killing of an unarmed black teen by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri.
There are conflicting accounts about what happened between the cop and the teen. There is no video tape. And we may never know what really happened. But after getting an upprovoked beating with a traffic cone in Ferguson, I wondered what it must be like on the other side of the shield.
Obviously, the police aren't talking in Ferguson. So I rode along with another police department: Detroit. America's Blackest City.

Police Officers Are Working With Far Right Extremists, Text Messages Show

A bombshell new report shows that far right extremists in Portland, Oregon had been having friendly text message conversations with police officers. The texts s...

A bombshell new report shows that far right extremists in Portland, Oregon had been having friendly text message conversations with police officers. The texts show that the leaders of the far right groups were working with police officers to prevent the arrests of their members, even if they became physically violent against protestors who showed up at their rallies. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins explains what’s happening.
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One of the weirdest things we have seen develop in the Donald Trump era here in the United States are these little alt right rallies that kind of pop up and no, I'm not talking about the people who line up and go to the Trump speeches. I'm telling you about what happened in Charleston. I'm talking about things that have happened in Portland, things that have happened in cities all over this country where these alt writers gathered together. Maybe they've got Tiki torches. Maybe it's just the proud boys who the hell knows what these morons want to call themselves on any given day, but they like to show up, create chaos, bait people into fighting them and then play the victims like there's somehow oppressed. Well, about a year and a half ago, maybe two years ago, I guess, um, in Portland, this was actually December, 2017 so a year and two months ago, sorry. In Portland, there was one of these little rallies and according to a massive new report by the Willamette Week, they actually uncovered text messages via freedom of Information Act request that showed that leaders in the police force, we're texting with leaders of this alt right group that was going to go stage this rally.
And they were kind of working out a deal to where the members of the alt right group that had outstanding warrants wouldn't be arrested at the rally. The people involved in the text messages were police LieutenantJeff Nia, and he was collaborating with the Patriot prayer leader, Joey Gibson, a council woman. Joanne Hardesty recently brought this up and accounts from meeting talking about this deplorable behavior by the police working with these violent alt righters. Here's one of the text messages. Uh, just uh, oh, okay. Well I got to give a preface here. Uh, you know, Nia told Gibson that he doesn't see a need to arrest his assistant who often brawls with antifa protesters even if he has a warrant, unless of course that assistant where to commit a new crime. So here's the text message, just make sure he doesn't do anything which may draw our attention from this police lieutenant if he still has the warrant in the system.
I don't run you guys, so I don't personally know the officer's could arrest him. I don't see a need to arrest on the warrant unless there is a reason. Um, now correct me if I'm wrong, but couldn't the reason be that he's got a fucking warrant out for his arrest and you see him hanging out? That's how that works. How does this police lieutenant not understand that the reason to arrest somebody is because of a warrant? And this is an assistant who frequently during these, uh, put, what is it a Patriot prayer idiot gathering who routinely tries to fight with protesters, counter protestors. He's got a warrant out. That's your reason to arrest him. But instead, as the paper pointed out, as these text messages prove, these police officers were more interested in helping out the outright, you know, these, these fascists, these racists, these bigots, police officers, at least in this one instance, we're on their side. And even though they knew that they had criminals amongst their ranks, criminals with outstanding warrants, they made an agreement to not arrest them. The only question I have is how many other police departments around the country have made similar agreements? These deals with the devil to not arrest these violent, disgusting, and vile right wing protestors?
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A bombshell new report shows that far right extremists in Portland, Oregon had been having friendly text message conversations with police officers. The texts show that the leaders of the far right groups were working with police officers to prevent the arrests of their members, even if they became physically violent against protestors who showed up at their rallies. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins explains what’s happening.
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One of the weirdest things we have seen develop in the Donald Trump era here in the United States are these little alt right rallies that kind of pop up and no, I'm not talking about the people who line up and go to the Trump speeches. I'm telling you about what happened in Charleston. I'm talking about things that have happened in Portland, things that have happened in cities all over this country where these alt writers gathered together. Maybe they've got Tiki torches. Maybe it's just the proud boys who the hell knows what these morons want to call themselves on any given day, but they like to show up, create chaos, bait people into fighting them and then play the victims like there's somehow oppressed. Well, about a year and a half ago, maybe two years ago, I guess, um, in Portland, this was actually December, 2017 so a year and two months ago, sorry. In Portland, there was one of these little rallies and according to a massive new report by the Willamette Week, they actually uncovered text messages via freedom of Information Act request that showed that leaders in the police force, we're texting with leaders of this alt right group that was going to go stage this rally.
And they were kind of working out a deal to where the members of the alt right group that had outstanding warrants wouldn't be arrested at the rally. The people involved in the text messages were police LieutenantJeff Nia, and he was collaborating with the Patriot prayer leader, Joey Gibson, a council woman. Joanne Hardesty recently brought this up and accounts from meeting talking about this deplorable behavior by the police working with these violent alt righters. Here's one of the text messages. Uh, just uh, oh, okay. Well I got to give a preface here. Uh, you know, Nia told Gibson that he doesn't see a need to arrest his assistant who often brawls with antifa protesters even if he has a warrant, unless of course that assistant where to commit a new crime. So here's the text message, just make sure he doesn't do anything which may draw our attention from this police lieutenant if he still has the warrant in the system.
I don't run you guys, so I don't personally know the officer's could arrest him. I don't see a need to arrest on the warrant unless there is a reason. Um, now correct me if I'm wrong, but couldn't the reason be that he's got a fucking warrant out for his arrest and you see him hanging out? That's how that works. How does this police lieutenant not understand that the reason to arrest somebody is because of a warrant? And this is an assistant who frequently during these, uh, put, what is it a Patriot prayer idiot gathering who routinely tries to fight with protesters, counter protestors. He's got a warrant out. That's your reason to arrest him. But instead, as the paper pointed out, as these text messages prove, these police officers were more interested in helping out the outright, you know, these, these fascists, these racists, these bigots, police officers, at least in this one instance, we're on their side. And even though they knew that they had criminals amongst their ranks, criminals with outstanding warrants, they made an agreement to not arrest them. The only question I have is how many other police departments around the country have made similar agreements? These deals with the devil to not arrest these violent, disgusting, and vile right wing protestors?
#rof #trofire #theringoffire #progressivenews

by Charlie LeDuff
DETROIT – The firefighters of this metropolis are are buckling under the workload and it shows.
The Fourth of July weekend was an orgy of flame and mayhem: 140 fires, innumerable medical runs, the obese invalid needing extraction from a stale back bedroom.
Sunrise to sunset to sunrise again, the alarm bells in the firehouses across this city bray like a beaten mule. Always, the goddamned bell.
There is no good sleep in the early morning hours for the men here at Engine 41, located deep in the heart of the city's East Side. The bell won't allow it. They wear the fatigue like a mask of mud.
“When you have poverty, you have fire,” says Firefighter Wes Rawls, 41, a lean, 17-year-veteran as he scans the evening horizon for smoke. “And here, there's a lot of poverty.”
This firehouse – known as “Fort Rohns” – is located in the neighborhood where a mad man or mad men or mad women lost the lightning one recent evening, setting fire to 18 houses. The building across the street from the firehouse is abandoned. The house next door was destroyed by an arsonist as was the one next to that and the one next to that and so on to the expressway a mile up the road.
“People jumping power lines to get electricity. The wiring in the houses is shoddy. They don't have smoke detectors,” Rawls says. “There's that, and then there's the arsonists trying to outdo each other.”
For all the talk about the miracle comeback of downtown Detroit, there is little mentioned about the struggles of the city's neighborhoods where 600,000 people go all but unnoticed. The skeletal city services, the bankruptcy balanced on the backs of the people who serve them: the police and firefighters, many of whom are retiring or relocating to distant cities with higher pay and better benefits and far fewer fires.
Fires are slightly down in Detroit this year, but the workload has increased for the Detroit firefighter thanks to a new directive that requires them to respond to medical emergencies. In total, firefighters have responded to 16,000 emergency calls this year.
That being said, things are slowly, but perceptibly changing for the better, many firefighters say. Response times for medical emergencies and fires are down in Detroit, near the national standard of eight minutes. New bunker gear is on order. Boots no longer have holes and there is plenty of toilet paper and soap in the bathrooms. Older trucks and engines are being repaired when they used to rot in the shop. New rigs have been budgeted. The mayor has promised to hire 90 new men. The commissioner and the union are working together with a sense of common purpose. A deal for a small boost in pay and a pension sweetener is on the table. Arsonists are being arrested, and abandoned houses are being demolished. Money is going into the field instead of contractors' pockets.
“We've got a long way to go, but things are starting to turn around,” Rawls says. “No matter what, no matter how beat down we are, we're still coming. We're coming with everything we've got.”
And with that, the bell goes off and so do the men of Engine 41.

by Charlie LeDuff
DETROIT – The firefighters of this metropolis are are buckling under the workload and it shows.
The Fourth of July weekend was an orgy of flame and mayhem: 140 fires, innumerable medical runs, the obese invalid needing extraction from a stale back bedroom.
Sunrise to sunset to sunrise again, the alarm bells in the firehouses across this city bray like a beaten mule. Always, the goddamned bell.
There is no good sleep in the early morning hours for the men here at Engine 41, located deep in the heart of the city's East Side. The bell won't allow it. They wear the fatigue like a mask of mud.
“When you have poverty, you have fire,” says Firefighter Wes Rawls, 41, a lean, 17-year-veteran as he scans the evening horizon for smoke. “And here, there's a lot of poverty.”
This firehouse – known as “Fort Rohns” – is located in the neighborhood where a mad man or mad men or mad women lost the lightning one recent evening, setting fire to 18 houses. The building across the street from the firehouse is abandoned. The house next door was destroyed by an arsonist as was the one next to that and the one next to that and so on to the expressway a mile up the road.
“People jumping power lines to get electricity. The wiring in the houses is shoddy. They don't have smoke detectors,” Rawls says. “There's that, and then there's the arsonists trying to outdo each other.”
For all the talk about the miracle comeback of downtown Detroit, there is little mentioned about the struggles of the city's neighborhoods where 600,000 people go all but unnoticed. The skeletal city services, the bankruptcy balanced on the backs of the people who serve them: the police and firefighters, many of whom are retiring or relocating to distant cities with higher pay and better benefits and far fewer fires.
Fires are slightly down in Detroit this year, but the workload has increased for the Detroit firefighter thanks to a new directive that requires them to respond to medical emergencies. In total, firefighters have responded to 16,000 emergency calls this year.
That being said, things are slowly, but perceptibly changing for the better, many firefighters say. Response times for medical emergencies and fires are down in Detroit, near the national standard of eight minutes. New bunker gear is on order. Boots no longer have holes and there is plenty of toilet paper and soap in the bathrooms. Older trucks and engines are being repaired when they used to rot in the shop. New rigs have been budgeted. The mayor has promised to hire 90 new men. The commissioner and the union are working together with a sense of common purpose. A deal for a small boost in pay and a pension sweetener is on the table. Arsonists are being arrested, and abandoned houses are being demolished. Money is going into the field instead of contractors' pockets.
“We've got a long way to go, but things are starting to turn around,” Rawls says. “No matter what, no matter how beat down we are, we're still coming. We're coming with everything we've got.”
And with that, the bell goes off and so do the men of Engine 41.

July 18, 2013 - HISTORIC: DETROIT FILES BANKRUPTCY --- The city of Detroit filed the largest municipal bankruptcy case in U.S. history Thursday afternoon, culminating a decades-long slide that transformed the nation's iconic industrial town into a model of urban decline crippled by population loss, a dwindling tax base and financial problems.
The 16-page petition was filed in U.S.Bankruptcy Court in Detroit.
Gov. Rick Snyder's office was making plans this afternoon to hold a Friday morning news conference at the Maccabees Building, 5057 Woodward in Midtown, according to a source. It's the same location where the governor declared a financial emergency for Detroit on March 1.
Under state law, Snyder is required to approve a Chapter 9 filing. As of Wednesday, Snyder said he had not received any such request from Detroit Emergency ManagerKevyn Orr. Sources close to the governor said the situation is fluid, adding that Snyder intends to study Orr's recommendations and related documents "for a couple of days" before making his decision.
The bankruptcy filing comes as an Ingham County judge is preparing Monday to hear arguments from retirees seeking to stop the bankruptcy filing, which produced an automatic stay of all pending litigation and capped a month of intense talks between Orr's team and creditors, which largely have failed to restructure as much as $20 billion in debt and long-term liabilities.
News of an imminent filing prompted lawyers for the city's pension funds to request an emergency hearing this afternoon in Ingham County Circuit Court to block a bankruptcy authorization.
Orr's spokesman, Bill Nowling, could not be reached for comment. And state officials contacted by The News on Thursday declined to discuss the matter.
The Chapter 9 filing could take years, experts say, despite hopes by the governor and Orr that the case can be wrapped up in a year. A bankruptcy judge could trump the state constitution by slashing retiree pensions, ripping up contracts and paying creditors roughly a dime on the dollar for unsecured claims worth $11.45 billion.
During a month of negotiations, Orr has reached a settlement with only two creditors: Bank of America Corp. and UBS AG. They have agreed to accept 75 cents on the dollar for approximately $340 million in swaps liabilities, according to a source familiar with the deal.
The bankruptcy plan was expected to closely follow Orr's restructuring proposal that was unveiled to creditors on June 14 — a proposal that drew criticism from some creditors who said the cuts were too deep and did not include the sale of city assets, including Belle Isle and a Detroit Institute of Arts collection worth billions. He proposed paying most of the money owed to secured creditors while pension funds, unions and unsecured bondholders would receive, in some cases, 10 cents on the dollar.
The filing is expected to trigger a costly, long and precedent-setting battle by creditors and Detroit's bankruptcy case could become a template for the treatment of pensions in the largely uncharted world of municipal bankruptcies.
Unsecured creditors could take the biggest hit in bankruptcy court. Orr wants them to share a $2 billion payout on approximately $11.5 billion worth of debt, which includes an estimated $9.2 billion in health and pension benefits and $530 million in general-obligation bonds.
Instead of paying creditors in full, Orr would use $1.25 billion over the next decade to buy police cars and fire trucks, replace broken street lights, tear down burned-out homes, fight blight and improve city services.

July 18, 2013 - HISTORIC: DETROIT FILES BANKRUPTCY --- The city of Detroit filed the largest municipal bankruptcy case in U.S. history Thursday afternoon, culminating a decades-long slide that transformed the nation's iconic industrial town into a model of urban decline crippled by population loss, a dwindling tax base and financial problems.
The 16-page petition was filed in U.S.Bankruptcy Court in Detroit.
Gov. Rick Snyder's office was making plans this afternoon to hold a Friday morning news conference at the Maccabees Building, 5057 Woodward in Midtown, according to a source. It's the same location where the governor declared a financial emergency for Detroit on March 1.
Under state law, Snyder is required to approve a Chapter 9 filing. As of Wednesday, Snyder said he had not received any such request from Detroit Emergency ManagerKevyn Orr. Sources close to the governor said the situation is fluid, adding that Snyder intends to study Orr's recommendations and related documents "for a couple of days" before making his decision.
The bankruptcy filing comes as an Ingham County judge is preparing Monday to hear arguments from retirees seeking to stop the bankruptcy filing, which produced an automatic stay of all pending litigation and capped a month of intense talks between Orr's team and creditors, which largely have failed to restructure as much as $20 billion in debt and long-term liabilities.
News of an imminent filing prompted lawyers for the city's pension funds to request an emergency hearing this afternoon in Ingham County Circuit Court to block a bankruptcy authorization.
Orr's spokesman, Bill Nowling, could not be reached for comment. And state officials contacted by The News on Thursday declined to discuss the matter.
The Chapter 9 filing could take years, experts say, despite hopes by the governor and Orr that the case can be wrapped up in a year. A bankruptcy judge could trump the state constitution by slashing retiree pensions, ripping up contracts and paying creditors roughly a dime on the dollar for unsecured claims worth $11.45 billion.
During a month of negotiations, Orr has reached a settlement with only two creditors: Bank of America Corp. and UBS AG. They have agreed to accept 75 cents on the dollar for approximately $340 million in swaps liabilities, according to a source familiar with the deal.
The bankruptcy plan was expected to closely follow Orr's restructuring proposal that was unveiled to creditors on June 14 — a proposal that drew criticism from some creditors who said the cuts were too deep and did not include the sale of city assets, including Belle Isle and a Detroit Institute of Arts collection worth billions. He proposed paying most of the money owed to secured creditors while pension funds, unions and unsecured bondholders would receive, in some cases, 10 cents on the dollar.
The filing is expected to trigger a costly, long and precedent-setting battle by creditors and Detroit's bankruptcy case could become a template for the treatment of pensions in the largely uncharted world of municipal bankruptcies.
Unsecured creditors could take the biggest hit in bankruptcy court. Orr wants them to share a $2 billion payout on approximately $11.5 billion worth of debt, which includes an estimated $9.2 billion in health and pension benefits and $530 million in general-obligation bonds.
Instead of paying creditors in full, Orr would use $1.25 billion over the next decade to buy police cars and fire trucks, replace broken street lights, tear down burned-out homes, fight blight and improve city services.

LeDuff: Detroit's bankruptcy is helping police do their jobs

DETROIT (WJBK) -
Detroit is a godforsaken place. Everyone knows that. Detroit is a mess, no doubt. Here's the thing: some of the factors that put Detroit $18 billion in debt could be factors in your town.
Cities all over the country are struggling to pay for health care and retiree pensions. They're seeing revenues from property taxes and sales taxes drop as they try to pay for expensive projects that were approved before the recession.
Charlie takes a look at what happens when a city doesn't have that proverbial pot to, well, you know.
Vital city services were cut to the bone and people are dying because police, fire and ambulances don't show up when someone calls 911.
That said, Detroit is on the brink of a comeback. Charlie shows us how the Emergency Manager is rubbing pennies together to bring back those city services.

We finally reached end of April month and it has been another busy frustrated month in Iran. More than 45 places in Iran repeatedly has been under protests. Those places from previous months is also under protest, specially workers that haven't been paid for several months.
A worker was digging undergrounds with his digging machine and then he found a body. It was Reza Shah the old king of Iran during Pahlavi dynasty. His grave was 40 years ago demolished when mullah came to power. People outside the digging site demonstrating, old followers still send their blessings to him.
Couple of places in Iran, Sanandaj, Tabriz was flooded and there were no help so far from the regime how to deal these acute scenarios. The Kurdistan province is still on strike for the 3rd week in a row. The situation have not improved at all.
The economical situation in Iran is getting worse for every week. There are many promises from the regime but people cant see those solutions, its all just broken promises.
Thank you for watching!

Clashes with police after Iranian financial institution bankruptcy

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10 Things That Would Happen if the United States Went Bankrupt

The specter of the American government declaring bankruptcy gets trotted out particularly often any time there’s a change in the majority party. Because we’ve been told for decades what a large, scary number America’s National Debt is, the populus fears that the time when it causes another Depression could come at any time. It couldn’t even be said to catch us by surprise, since there were many alarmists that would be able to tell us that they told us so.
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Detroit Police: Post Ferguson

A lot's been said about the black experience after the killing of an unarmed black teen by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri.
There are conflicting accounts about what happened between the cop and the teen. There is no video tape. And we may never know what really happened. But after getting an upprovoked beating with a traffic cone in Ferguson, I wondered what it must be like on the other side of the shield.
Obviously, the police aren't talking in Ferguson. So I rode along with another police department: Detroit. America's Blackest City.

Police Officers Are Working With Far Right Extremists, Text Messages Show

A bombshell new report shows that far right extremists in Portland, Oregon had been having friendly text message conversations with police officers. The texts show that the leaders of the far right groups were working with police officers to prevent the arrests of their members, even if they became physically violent against protestors who showed up at their rallies. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins explains what’s happening.
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One of the weirdest things we have seen develop in the Donald Trump era here in the United States are these little alt right rallies that kind of pop up and no, I'm not talking about the people who line up and go to the Trump speeches. I'm telling you about what happened in Charleston. I'm talking about things that have happened in Portland, things that have happened in cities all over this country where these alt writers gathered together. Maybe they've got Tiki torches. Maybe it's just the proud boys who the hell knows what these morons want to call themselves on any given day, but they like to show up, create chaos, bait people into fighting them and then play the victims like there's somehow oppressed. Well, about a year and a half ago, maybe two years ago, I guess, um, in Portland, this was actually December, 2017 so a year and two months ago, sorry. In Portland, there was one of these little rallies and according to a massive new report by the Willamette Week, they actually uncovered text messages via freedom of Information Act request that showed that leaders in the police force, we're texting with leaders of this alt right group that was going to go stage this rally.
And they were kind of working out a deal to where the members of the alt right group that had outstanding warrants wouldn't be arrested at the rally. The people involved in the text messages were police LieutenantJeff Nia, and he was collaborating with the Patriot prayer leader, Joey Gibson, a council woman. Joanne Hardesty recently brought this up and accounts from meeting talking about this deplorable behavior by the police working with these violent alt righters. Here's one of the text messages. Uh, just uh, oh, okay. Well I got to give a preface here. Uh, you know, Nia told Gibson that he doesn't see a need to arrest his assistant who often brawls with antifa protesters even if he has a warrant, unless of course that assistant where to commit a new crime. So here's the text message, just make sure he doesn't do anything which may draw our attention from this police lieutenant if he still has the warrant in the system.
I don't run you guys, so I don't personally know the officer's could arrest him. I don't see a need to arrest on the warrant unless there is a reason. Um, now correct me if I'm wrong, but couldn't the reason be that he's got a fucking warrant out for his arrest and you see him hanging out? That's how that works. How does this police lieutenant not understand that the reason to arrest somebody is because of a warrant? And this is an assistant who frequently during these, uh, put, what is it a Patriot prayer idiot gathering who routinely tries to fight with protesters, counter protestors. He's got a warrant out. That's your reason to arrest him. But instead, as the paper pointed out, as these text messages prove, these police officers were more interested in helping out the outright, you know, these, these fascists, these racists, these bigots, police officers, at least in this one instance, we're on their side. And even though they knew that they had criminals amongst their ranks, criminals with outstanding warrants, they made an agreement to not arrest them. The only question I have is how many other police departments around the country have made similar agreements? These deals with the devil to not arrest these violent, disgusting, and vile right wing protestors?
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Detroit Post-Bankruptcy The Men of Engine 41

by Charlie LeDuff
DETROIT – The firefighters of this metropolis are are buckling under the workload and it shows.
The Fourth of July weekend was an orgy of flame and mayhem: 140 fires, innumerable medical runs, the obese invalid needing extraction from a stale back bedroom.
Sunrise to sunset to sunrise again, the alarm bells in the firehouses across this city bray like a beaten mule. Always, the goddamned bell.
There is no good sleep in the early morning hours for the men here at Engine 41, located deep in the heart of the city's East Side. The bell won't allow it. They wear the fatigue like a mask of mud.
“When you have poverty, you have fire,” says Firefighter Wes Rawls, 41, a lean, 17-year-veteran as he scans the evening horizon for smoke. “And here, there's a lot of poverty.”
This firehouse – known as “Fort Rohns” – is located in the neighborhood where a mad man or mad men or mad women lost the lightning one recent evening, setting fire to 18 houses. The building across the street from the firehouse is abandoned. The house next door was destroyed by an arsonist as was the one next to that and the one next to that and so on to the expressway a mile up the road.
“People jumping power lines to get electricity. The wiring in the houses is shoddy. They don't have smoke detectors,” Rawls says. “There's that, and then there's the arsonists trying to outdo each other.”
For all the talk about the miracle comeback of downtown Detroit, there is little mentioned about the struggles of the city's neighborhoods where 600,000 people go all but unnoticed. The skeletal city services, the bankruptcy balanced on the backs of the people who serve them: the police and firefighters, many of whom are retiring or relocating to distant cities with higher pay and better benefits and far fewer fires.
Fires are slightly down in Detroit this year, but the workload has increased for the Detroit firefighter thanks to a new directive that requires them to respond to medical emergencies. In total, firefighters have responded to 16,000 emergency calls this year.
That being said, things are slowly, but perceptibly changing for the better, many firefighters say. Response times for medical emergencies and fires are down in Detroit, near the national standard of eight minutes. New bunker gear is on order. Boots no longer have holes and there is plenty of toilet paper and soap in the bathrooms. Older trucks and engines are being repaired when they used to rot in the shop. New rigs have been budgeted. The mayor has promised to hire 90 new men. The commissioner and the union are working together with a sense of common purpose. A deal for a small boost in pay and a pension sweetener is on the table. Arsonists are being arrested, and abandoned houses are being demolished. Money is going into the field instead of contractors' pockets.
“We've got a long way to go, but things are starting to turn around,” Rawls says. “No matter what, no matter how beat down we are, we're still coming. We're coming with everything we've got.”
And with that, the bell goes off and so do the men of Engine 41.

Breaking: Detroit Becomes Largest U.S. City To File For Bankruptcy

July 18, 2013 - HISTORIC: DETROIT FILES BANKRUPTCY --- The city of Detroit filed the largest municipal bankruptcy case in U.S. history Thursday afternoon, culminating a decades-long slide that transformed the nation's iconic industrial town into a model of urban decline crippled by population loss, a dwindling tax base and financial problems.
The 16-page petition was filed in U.S.Bankruptcy Court in Detroit.
Gov. Rick Snyder's office was making plans this afternoon to hold a Friday morning news conference at the Maccabees Building, 5057 Woodward in Midtown, according to a source. It's the same location where the governor declared a financial emergency for Detroit on March 1.
Under state law, Snyder is required to approve a Chapter 9 filing. As of Wednesday, Snyder said he had not received any such request from Detroit Emergency ManagerKevyn Orr. Sources close to the governor said the situation is fluid, adding that Snyder intends to study Orr's recommendations and related documents "for a couple of days" before making his decision.
The bankruptcy filing comes as an Ingham County judge is preparing Monday to hear arguments from retirees seeking to stop the bankruptcy filing, which produced an automatic stay of all pending litigation and capped a month of intense talks between Orr's team and creditors, which largely have failed to restructure as much as $20 billion in debt and long-term liabilities.
News of an imminent filing prompted lawyers for the city's pension funds to request an emergency hearing this afternoon in Ingham County Circuit Court to block a bankruptcy authorization.
Orr's spokesman, Bill Nowling, could not be reached for comment. And state officials contacted by The News on Thursday declined to discuss the matter.
The Chapter 9 filing could take years, experts say, despite hopes by the governor and Orr that the case can be wrapped up in a year. A bankruptcy judge could trump the state constitution by slashing retiree pensions, ripping up contracts and paying creditors roughly a dime on the dollar for unsecured claims worth $11.45 billion.
During a month of negotiations, Orr has reached a settlement with only two creditors: Bank of America Corp. and UBS AG. They have agreed to accept 75 cents on the dollar for approximately $340 million in swaps liabilities, according to a source familiar with the deal.
The bankruptcy plan was expected to closely follow Orr's restructuring proposal that was unveiled to creditors on June 14 — a proposal that drew criticism from some creditors who said the cuts were too deep and did not include the sale of city assets, including Belle Isle and a Detroit Institute of Arts collection worth billions. He proposed paying most of the money owed to secured creditors while pension funds, unions and unsecured bondholders would receive, in some cases, 10 cents on the dollar.
The filing is expected to trigger a costly, long and precedent-setting battle by creditors and Detroit's bankruptcy case could become a template for the treatment of pensions in the largely uncharted world of municipal bankruptcies.
Unsecured creditors could take the biggest hit in bankruptcy court. Orr wants them to share a $2 billion payout on approximately $11.5 billion worth of debt, which includes an estimated $9.2 billion in health and pension benefits and $530 million in general-obligation bonds.
Instead of paying creditors in full, Orr would use $1.25 billion over the next decade to buy police cars and fire trucks, replace broken street lights, tear down burned-out homes, fight blight and improve city services.

Police

A police force is a constituted body of persons empowered by the state to enforce the law, protect property, and limit civil disorder. Their powers include the legitimized use of force. The term is most commonly associated with police services of a sovereign state that are authorized to exercise the police power of that state within a defined legal or territorial area of responsibility. Police forces are often defined as being separate from military or other organizations involved in the defense of the state against foreign aggressors; however, gendarmerie are military units charged with civil policing.

Law enforcement, however, constitutes only part of policing activity. Policing has included an array of activities in different situations, but the predominant ones are concerned with the preservation of order. In some societies, in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, these developed within the context of maintaining the class system and the protection of private property. Many police forces suffer from police corruption to a greater or lesser degree. The police force is usually a public sector service, meaning they are paid through taxes.